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@CodingEagle02: It doesn't look like that here. The screen looks normal, it just doesn't update anymore. The mouse cursor doesn't move. Ctrl+Alt+F1..6 have no effect. The fan may speed up a little after a while. It doesn't go full speed. I didn't try the Sysrq stuff.

What kinds of freezes are you all getting? I've noticed I get a really weird and specific, where my screen suddenly goes black, and my fan starts going at full speed. The kill X server command doesn't work, but REISUB mostly does. I never used to get these. I'm too lazy to post the logs somewhere at the moment, but if people are dealing with the same thing, then I guess it's just a matter of waiting until Linus and Realtek get their shit together.

@jackoneill ok too soon .. system just froze twice with rtw_8821ce

@jackoneill Thanks for that, then indeed I tested with the current kernel driver. Now testing rtw88-dkms-git for a few hours and so far it works great. If the system crashes then i'll report here.

The driver that comes with the kernel is called rtw88_8821ce (and rtw88_{8821c,pci,core}). The driver in the rtw88-dkms-git package is called rtw_8821ce (and rtw_{8821c,pci,core}). The driver from the kernel seems to have higher priority. So the file in /etc/modprobe.d/ needs to contain these lines:

blacklist rtw88_8821ce blacklist 8821ce

@jackoneill I just installed rtl88-dkms-git, removed rtl8821ce-dkms-git, unblacklisted the rtw88-driver. Rebooted, system froze within an hour. I didn't know how to verify that the driver from the package is used, and not the driver supplied with the kernel? Oh, and the system seemed to use excessive cpu as well, but not sure.

@senorsnor and @Spixmaster: The patch set called "rtw88: add scan notify to firmware and refine fw_feature check" may have fixed this problem. I've been running commit 6ccdad5a58e18eac6b1335f05f94bf2b36146e00 from lwfinger/rtw88 for 3 days now with no freeze. It was impossible to go more than a few hours without a freeze before these patches. Maybe test it? I used the rtw88-dkms-git package.

@jackoneill I see you reported this as a bug, thanks. My system has become completely unusable by now and I'm back to @tomaspinho's driver ..

I too have had problems with the native kernel driver. Although my system didn't freeze I found the wifi connection slow and very unstable as was bluetooth. I kept losing the connection and having to reconnect. When I re-installed this package everything was stable and reliable. I tried switching between the kernel module and this three or four times just in case it was some other cause but I'm pretty sure the instability was down to the native module.

@jackoneill thanks! Output from my two system freezes at https://pastebin.com/9ddkyDCS and https://pastebin.com/dUWxB7B8 . Pastebin files expire after one day so please save it yourself; if you need it after they expire just let me know.